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Executions Kill Any Chance to Correct Injustices

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution focused on the Troy Davis case.  LINKOn Sept. 23, our great state of Georgia is poised to deliver a miscarriage of justice in the name of its citizenry. A man, on death row for the 1989 murder of an off-duty policeman in Savannah, is scheduled to die on that date. A heinous crime was committed ? one that defies understanding. The familial pain inflicted can only be imagined. The loss will never subside and their burden will never be diminished by any judicial ruling. As a society, we kill to teach that killing is wrong. Can anyone say that Troy Anthony Davis, the accused, is the murderer in this tragedy beyond doubt? The burden of proof was circumstantial by all admission: no physical evidence of any description, no weapon, no fingerprints, no DNA...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).